16 months or 1yr on hormones

[Raven1981]

Hello All:

 

Wanted to share that I have been on hormones it self for a total of 16 months now.  But as of June 22nd, I have been on what I call the real hormones with the injections for a year.  Short background is that I started on hormones January 2018 and I started on patches for my delivery.  From January to June I was having problems even getting my estrogen to do anything.  My E only went up from the very beginning from 23 to 28 in a 6 month period.  By June, it was pretty ridiculous where I was applying 4 patches on me at a time and nothing was happening.  So June is when I talked to my doctor and that was when we officially switched me from patches to injections.  Once I got on injections, my E really took off.

 

Now 1 year later, I am still on E and the dosage I have been on has been pretty good up till recent where I am no longer feeling like I am floating on a cloud when I inject myself.  So after seeing my doctor today,  We have now made a huge change to my hormones dosage and it is where she is starting to blast me. My doctor said that 200 is alright and it's ok, but she would really like to see me in the high 300, low 400 for my estrogen.  So now we have upped my estrogen from (ok dose) to (higher dose).  We have re-put me back on progesterone, this time we are doing the other progesterone from the last one I was on and the dose (average).  Then we cut my Spiro in half since my T is doing wonderful where it has been bouncing between 11 to 23 and so since I have 1 kidney and want to keep it healthy, we have cut my spiro in half and hoping to wing me off of Spiro and seeing if we can just use Estrogen to also control the Testosterone level as well.  I am lucky that I had a partial Orci and so my T was already low and it takes very low does and 2 weeks to drop and kill off my T.  My Fesenteride as been increased as well.

 

My doctor wants to see me in 4 months but now she wants to get intermittent Labs inbetween session with my doctor to just see how I am doing on the labs and if we need to adjust my hormones before seeing her again.

 

I like how my doctor taking it slow but now is blasting me but yet wants to keep a close eye on me, since I have a higher chance of cancer with not just the hormones but since I have had cancer in the past, that put me in a higher risk.  So have to really watch and pay attention.  We then also talked about my mammogram and that I am clean and normal.  My doctor likes and agrees with yes, start my yearly mammogram now and for the rest of my life and to do my self exam every other month.  I told my doctor about how excited I was when I saw my breast filled out and how I started to feel myself up and play with my own breast and she liked that cause that is kinda of a self check and also making me excited and getting off when playing with my own boobs.  Sorry about the mental picture there.  But at least I am doing fine and were blasting me even harder now at my 1 year with injections.

 

I know that everybody is different and no ones transition is the same.  I am glad to have been on a OK dose for a year while making sure no cancer and now we are bumping me up and blasting me harder. 

[Maid In Bedlam]

That is great news Amy. Another positive for you.

 

I am very pleased its all getting sorted. I have never had the injections. The patches alone worked better than i could have dreamed. I never had high T anyway. So no Spiro for me But Everyone is diffrent and the injections are for you and are doing a proper job then awesome.

 

We should go for check ups on a regular basis anyway.  I have my bloods done once a year regardless of my health as Hormones do give us more risk factors. So keep checking your potential problem points Amy most of all keep your chin my Girl. follow your own Yellow brick road and you will reach your Oz.

 

 

 

 

[Raven1981]

54 minutes ago, Maid In Bedlam said:

That is great news Amy. Another positive for you.

 

I am very pleased its all getting sorted. I have never had the injections. The patches alone worked better than i could have dreamed. I never had high T anyway. So no Spiro for me But Everyone is diffrent and the injections are for you and are doing a proper job then awesome.

 

We should go for check ups on a regular basis anyway.  I have my bloods done once a year regardless of my health as Hormones do give us more risk factors. So keep checking your potential problem points Amy most of all keep your chin my Girl. follow your own Yellow brick road and you will reach your Oz.

 

 

 

 

Thank you @Maid In Bedlam.  Yes I have to agree that were all different when it comes to the hormone administrating.  Patches work for you so that is awesome.  Patches did nothing for me but injections are working awesome.  Oral works for others.  sublingual works for some.  So it is just a matter of what works for the person.

 

I am just glad that I have went from the patches to the injections and that the injections are doing wonders for me